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...While many efforts have been made to close the gap between receipts and expenditures, such efforts have not been completely successful. It seems that the time has about come-indeed, it has already arrived-when we should give careful consideration to that subject. . . . Insofar as I am informed, we have about exhausted the sources of taxation to which Congress is willing and able to resort...
Since Harvard awards a total of approximately three hundred thousand dollars in scholarships to six hundred men every year, it is essential that the awards be on as wise and accurate a basis as possible. Insofar as Mr. Sharpe, continues to make needed changes which work toward a better distribution of these funds, he will be contributing of the achievement of President Conant's goal of "a carefully administrated scholarship system...
...hurry in August to his new post. In early October he was still in Berlin and 17 visiting members of the French Chamber of Deputies cornered him at a tea with this question: "Can you assure us that the settlement of the World War is now final insofar as any German claims are concerned?" Flushing darkly, von Ribbentrop finished his tea at a gulp, stalked off to Das Büro Ribbentrop. His 15-year-old son, he presently announced, would go in England to swank Westminster School, although there is in London a special 100% Nazi school to which...
...appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently as "a new and romantic industry." Concluded the Court: "The air, like the sea, is by its nature incapable of private ownership, except insofar as one may actually...
...interstate truckers are as hampered as railroads would be if each State required different gauge tracks. Last week in Columbia, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decided that South Carolina's limitations (example: goin, width, though most States allow 96-in.) were an "unreasonable burden" upon truck commerce insofar as hard-surfaced main roads were concerned, granted truckers a permanent injunction against them...